Tobacco companies love Tulsa

[Townsend]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-03/30-cities-with-worst-smoking-problems-from-memphis-to-honolulu/


#1, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Smokers: 24.6%
Cigarettes per day: 16.2
Tried to quit with gum: 26.9%
Tried to quit with patch: 32.8%
Tried to quit with support program: 7.4%

[Conan71]

Really glad I'm not one of the 24.6% anymore.

[Hoss]

Really glad I'm not one of the 24.6% anymore.

Same here, Friday is my four year anniversary.

[DolfanBob]

Congrats Conan and Hoss. I stopped in 1985. 75 cents was just to high.

[Townsend]

Really glad I'm not one of the 24.6% anymore.

Ditto.

Two years this month for the wife and two years in February for me. 

I'm now very uppity about it.

[Hoss]

Congrats Conan and Hoss. I stopped in 1985. 75 cents was just to high.

Haha, that's about when I first started (senior in HS).  Then on and off while I was married (quit several times only to start back up again from 1990-1994), then back on when I moved back to town.  The trigger (unfortunately) was a friend of mine in 2007 who died at the age of 53 from cancer.  Now, the cigarettes weren't the cause..so the doctors told us, because it was pancreatic cancer...but it was enough of a kick to force my hand.  I used the lozenges initially, and they worked ok.  I thought about Chantix, but my brother had a terrible time with that (terrible migraines and I already have that without the Chantix) so I toughed it out.

[bmuscotty]

I quit going on 5 years ago cold turkey more or less after 30 years. Got down to 2 or 3 a day and when I ran out that was it. Down side is I now have COPD. Oh well...

[joiei]

I went cold turkey on July 29, 1991 so this year will make 20 years.  And I haven't died from not having a cigarette yet.   

[DolfanBob]

Remember when it was a distinction to brag about how packs a day you smoked. I was at a pack and a half a day when I quit. Of course at the age I was, I had help with friends bumming all the time.

Almost two years before I quit. I switched from the ever popular Marlboro and Merit crowd to smoking Viceroy. You should have seen the looks when I pulled that pack out to offer the bums a smoke.
It was like I was offering a non filter Camel. Just for fun. What did you guy's smoke ?

[bmuscotty]

Marlboro gold pac then Marlboro Lights when I quit.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Camel, non-filter.  Or rolled my own.  Or Borkum Riff in a water pipe - very smoooooootthhhhhhh!
Quit 1973 at 22 after 16 years of moderate use.

To all the quitters out there; do you now proselytize to all your friends??  I certainly do.

There is none so pious as a repentant sinner!

[Hoss]

Camel, non-filter.  Or rolled my own.  Or Borkum Riff in a water pipe - very smoooooootthhhhhhh!
Quit 1973 at 22 after 16 years of moderate use.

To all the quitters out there; do you now proselytize to all your friends??  I certainly do.

There is none so pious as a repentant sinner!

I don't.  Because I know how difficult it is to quit.

Must be the liberal in me.

[Conan71]

I'm certainly more sensitve to smoke and smoke on smokers I pass in the store than I was before.

I quit smoking Feb. 13, 2005.  But I continued to dip snuff or use nicotine gum when I couldn't dip.  I finally started on Chantix before Christmas in 2007 and took my last dip on Jan. 31 of that year.  Nothing symbolic about it, I simply do my annual check up in mid December every year and the 31st was the last day I could tolerate the taste of the tobacco after starting Chantix.  I had a very rough time with Chantix but it gave me a whole lot of reinforcement to never relapse.  Any time I've thought I could bum a dip, I simply think about how sick I felt those last two days and then the bad reaction to the Chantix (mostly nerves and a depressive reaction).

When I smoked, I smoked Marlboro Lights or Reds mostly. 

[nathanm]

Weird. It's been a long time since I smoked, but I don't find it at all bothersome unless it's super-thick. Like house fire thick. Or stale. Stale smoke smells terrible. Fresh smoke smells good.

[Hoss]

I'm certainly more sensitve to smoke and smoke on smokers I pass in the store than I was before.

I quit smoking Feb. 13, 2005.  But I continued to dip snuff or use nicotine gum when I couldn't dip.  I finally started on Chantix before Christmas in 2007 and took my last dip on Jan. 31 of that year.  Nothing symbolic about it, I simply do my annual check up in mid December every year and the 31st was the last day I could tolerate the taste of the tobacco after starting Chantix.  I had a very rough time with Chantix but it gave me a whole lot of reinforcement to never relapse.  Any time I've thought I could bum a dip, I simply think about how sick I felt those last two days and then the bad reaction to the Chantix (mostly nerves and a depressive reaction).

When I smoked, I smoked Marlboro Lights or Reds mostly. 

For the last three years I was smoking, I was smoking Marlboro Ultra Lights/Ultra Light 100s.  I'm sure it didn't matter all that much.